Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Politics and government
WINNER:
Mark Ferrandino, the state House speaker who was instrumental in efforts in 2013 that had been killed two previous sessions in a row. Under his watch, the legislature also passed sensible gun regulations and approved in-state tuition for students who grew up in Colorado but don’t have legal status.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Victor Head, a Pueblo plumber who led the successful recall effort against Democratic state Sens. John Morse and Angela Giron. From : “The way Victor Head accomplished what may have forever changed how petitions are gathered — and what stunned Colorado’s political landscape this summer — originated with an iPhone and a 4-year-old voter law.”
